Delaware House Bill 7

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-2)
Status: Introduced on April 25 2023 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-03-05 - Stricken in House
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act requires Delaware Medicaid to provide an enhancement to the acute care per diem rate for psychiatric facilities for hard to place pediatric behavioral health inpatients. The per diem enhancement is limited to an inpatient stay of 14 days. The applicability of the per diem enhancement is determined based on whether admission criteria is met. This Act also creates a Quality Oversight Committee designed to identify quality metrics for facilities admitting patients as well as provide biennial recommendations to the General Assemblys Joint Finance Committee regarding eligibility categories and enhancement rates.

An Act To Amend Title 31 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Pediatric Inpatient Behavioral Health Enhancement.

Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]	Rep. Michael Smith [R]
Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Nnamdi Chukwuocha [D]	Rep. Larry Lambert [D]
Rep. Sherae'a Moore [D]	Rep. Eric Morrison [D]	Rep. Stell Parker Selby [D]	Sen. Kyle Gay [D]
Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. Kyra Hoffner [D]	Sen. Russ Huxtable [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-05		Stricken in House
2023-04-25		Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=130247
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=130247&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB7